Per Kirkeby & Jørgen Leth – Dyrehaven: Den romantiske skov AKA The Deer Garden: The Romantic Forest (1970)

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This film about the Deer Garden, a forest park north of Copenhagen, was an assignment to celebrate the Deer Garden’s 300th anniversary. Leth and the painter Per Kirkeby above all wanted to do an attractive film about life in the forest orchestrated around the four seasons. The photography is heavily inspired by the Danish Golden Age painters’ view of nature. Kirkeby, Leth and DP Henning Camre worked on and off for a full year to find the ideal light and the optimum framing, seeking out the truly beautiful. As Leth puts it, “there was complete…golden-section control of the whole film. “The narrative holds tiny traces of romantic-poetry notions of mystical and mythical forest life: a nude woman appears among the tree trunks and vanishes again like a fairy girl on a summer night. Peace and harmony rule in the Deer Garden. People are tine background elements who do not take up much space in the grand scheme of nature, which rightfully belongs to animals and plants. Over lovely shots swaddled in Henning Christiansen’s score comes an occasional, matter-of-fact narration by forest ranger Tage A. Jensen, in almost contrapunctal contrast to the romantic visuals – objectiveness opposed to artful beauty.

Dyrehaven.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	37 min 34 s
Size: 	1.33 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1408x1008 
Aspect ratio:  	1.397
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	5 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.141
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 58.0 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/269AA7C1510B650/Dyrehaven.mkv

Language(s):Danish
Subtitles:English